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The road to Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Ariz., will go through Seattle and New England. The defending champion Seahawks (12-4) secured the NFC West title and the No. 1 spot in the NFC on Sunday, scoring their 20 points in the second half of a 20-6 victory over the St. Louis Rams. Wild-card weekend is set in the NFC with the Lions (11-5) playing at the Dallas Cowboys (12-4) and theArizona Cardinals (11-5) traveling to Carolina. The 7-9 Panthers throttled the Atlanta Falcons 34-3 to claim the NFC South for consecutive seasons. Carolina rebounded from a six-game losing streak, winning four straight to end the season while the Cardinals lost four of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Jamaal Charles found the end zone three times and the Kansas City defense stifled Tom Brady and the New England offense for most of three quarters as the Chiefs scored a 41-14 victory over the Patriots on Monday night at Arrowhead...

The words entrepreneur and startup have had a great run of late. A study of Census Bureau data analyzed by scholars at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation demonstrated that virtually all net new job creation over the past three decades has come from true...

PHOENIX Former Chiefs guard Will Shields spent Saturday afternoon keeping up with his children who were playing college basketball games across America. Whether it was by telephone, iPad or television in his hotel room, Shields followed his daughter...

Kansas City Chiefs safety Eric Berry has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, the team announced Monday.
Berry, 25, who was placed on the non-football injury list last month, ending his season, recently underwent a battery of tests at Emory...

It is not unusual for the playoff fortunes of an NFL team to depend on a Week 17 game in another time zone, but the Ravens may have even more than that riding on Sunday's matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers.
Think about it....

The thought crossed wide receiver Torrey Smith's mind last week following the Ravens' disappointing loss to the Houston Texans.
After playing four seasons for the Ravens, after winning a Super Bowl with them in his second year and after making...

As the Ravens (9-6) square off with the Cleveland Browns (7-8) in the regular season finale Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium, here’s a checklist of things to keep an eye on:
1. Scoreboard watching
There are only two scores that matter to the Ravens as...

The Seattle Seahawks apparently no longer have the loudest fans among the 32 NFL teams.
Kansas City Chiefs fans broke the record Monday night at Arrowhead Stadium as their team was taking on the New England Patriots, according to the Chiefs.
Arrowhead's...

The Denver Broncos have been stacking up victories all season. Sunday, they served Kansas City a special order:
A quadruple Decker.
Eric Decker caught four touchdown passes from Peyton Manning to lift the Broncos to a 35-28 victory over the Chiefs at...

An unidentified man was killed in an apparent struggle in the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., during an NFL game Sunday, police said.
Two suspects were arrested and a homicide investigation was underway, according to Kansas City...

Six weeks ago, Alterraun Verner had no guarantees he'd be a starting cornerback for the Tennessee Titans.
Today, he's made as big an impact as any defensive player in the NFL.
What are the odds of that?
Actually, Verner could calculate those for you....

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady's 17-yard touchdown pass to Kenbrell Thompkins with 5 seconds left gave the New England Patriots a wild 30-27 win and knocked the New Orleans Saints from the ranks of the unbeaten Sunday. It capped a 70-yard drive in which...

The Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs still have perfect records.
The New England Patriots were only perfect when they needed to be.
In a frenetic finish that will be woven into Patriots lore, Tom Brady threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to rookie...

Ravens coach John Harbaugh didn't need to spend any time during the bye week studying the team's remaining schedule. To him, everything beyond Sunday's road game against the Cleveland Browns is irrelevant right now.
It doesn't matter that after...

The Denver Broncos are smarting in the aftermath of their collapse at New England.
But are they smarter?
"I think that's the test of football teams," quarterback Peyton Manning said in the wee hours of Monday morning on the East Coast, after...

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot his girlfriend -- the mother of his 3-month old daughter -- multiple times Saturday morning, drove about five miles from their home to the team's practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium and killed...

The news that Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher had died in a murder-suicide hit Ravens defensive lineman Arthur Jones particularly hard. Belcher was a childhood friend and former wrestling teammate of Jones, who grew up in upstate New...